Accius

Tragoediae

Achilles

This play has been taken to be the same as The Myrmidons (see pp. 480–485; cf. R., 349 ff.). If this is right the chorus was composed of Myrmidons. But cf. C. B. Earp, A study of the frs. of three related plays of Accius., Diss. Columb. Univ., 1939. (Achilles, Myrmidones, Epinausimache). We owe all

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Tragedies

Achilles

the fragments of both plays and their titles to Nonius alone. Several pairs of plays in Accius have been thought, as will be seen, to be one play under two titles, but it is hardly likely that in these several instances Nonius has at random used sometimes one title, sometimes another, of the same play.